Dr. Norman Wilde

Updated December 20, 2006

Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL 32514

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Biographical Information

Norman Wilde received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He spent a number of years working in developing countries overseas: in academic positions, with the World Health Organization, and as an independent systems consultant.

Dr. Wilde is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of West Florida. Since 1986 he has been working with the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) on a series of research and technology transfer projects in Software Maintenance and particularly in the area of Dependency Analysis and Software Reconnaissance. He has worked closely with the research programs of Center affiliates Andersen Consulting and Telcordia. He is the author of a series of research papers on Software Maintenance as well as a Software Engineering Institute curriculum module on Dependency Analysis.

Dr. Wilde's 1992 paper which introduced Software Reconnaissance was recently recognized as the Most Influential Paper from that year's International Conference on Software Maintenance.

Courses

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• Spring, 2007 - COP4601 - Software Systems
• Spring, 2007 - CEN6064 - Software Design
• Fall, 2006 - COP3022 - Intermediate Programming / CIS3020 - Introduction to CIS

Projects

• Spotlighting the Code: A SERC Technology Transfer Project: This project is experimenting in SERC affiliate companies with the Software Reconnaissance technique for locating important features in large old programs.
• The RECON Software Reconnaissance tool: RECON is a tool for doing Software Reconnaissance on C code which runs under Unix and MS-DOS and is publically available in source form.
• Dynamic Analysis of Test and Evaluation Software: This completed project, supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research developed a RECON tool for FORTRAN code typical of the Air Force inventory.
• GUMP: The Generic University of West Florida Maintenance Process: This is a defined process for maintaining software that is used in the Software Engineering Project courses at the University of West Florida. The process documents are available on line for educators and industry as a resource to use in teaching about modern software engineering processes.

Technical reports on several of these projects are available on-line.

Student Papers on Software Engineering Topics

• Alan J. Conwell, New Technology Insertion Into the GUMP Process, April/98

Student Presentations

• Student presentations from the Spring/03 Semester

Conferences

• International Conference on Software Maintenance - ICSM 2004 Chicago, 11 - 17 September 2004.